Since the first time I encountered this Gil Elvgren pinup, I have longed for a perfectly-striped dress.

And then of course, this pattern only made my longing worse, because there it is again in the corner: the perfectly-striped dress:

Okay, so despite being a painfully impatient person who finds it desperately dull to focus on the little details (oh! How I love the Big Picture!), I am going to try it.


I lucked into some black-and-white striped cotton last year at a Halloween sale (presumably everyone else made pirate stuff with it), and have just spent a lot of time painstakingly laying them out very straight and matched up. Ugh!

Of course, I learned some exciting lessons about this pattern last time I tried it (see the cherry dress below) so I've cut the thing down a bit, and we'll give it another shot... We'll see how it goes this time--stay with me, and wish me luck.